Ticket-holder for railway-cars.



No. 670,623. P a taritedgllar. 26, mm.

a. F. SANBOBN. TICKET HOLDER FOB RAILWAY CABS.

(Application filed Nov. as, 1900.:

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEoRGE F. sANBoRN, E MEREDITH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

TICKET-HOLDER FOR RAI LWAY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 670,623, dated March 26, 1901. Application filed November 28, 1900. Serial No. 37,959. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

\ Be it known that I, GEORGE F. SANBORN, of

Meredith, in the county of Belknap and State ,of New Han1sphire,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Holders for Railway-Cars, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains or with which it is most nearly connected to make and use the same.

This invention relates to ticket-holders for railway-cars; and the objects are to provide a form of means for holding tickets where it is customary for conductors to place them viz., under the binding of the seat-back; to provide such a construction'and arrangement of parts as to entirely obviate projections on which clothing might catch; to provide for insertion of the ticket from either side of the seat-back, so that reversal of the latter without turning it completely over will not affect the utility of the device; to provide-a form of.

holder which can be applied to both longitudinal edges of the seat-back in the case of a back which is turned completely over when the seat is reversed; to dispense entirely with springs or resiliency in the material of the holder, and finally to provide a simple and inexpensive device which can readily be applied Without requiring any alteration in the car structure and which when in place is unobjectionable in appearance.

With the above-stated objects in view the invention consists in a number of novel features of construction and combination of' tion on different lines with a ticket in holder in Fig. 3.

The parts'of the holder comprise a rectangular base-plate Ct, having curved flanges a at the longer sides, acentral screw-hole, and centrally-located nail-holes a at the ends, a

the invention.

gripping-plate b, with curved longitudinal edges b and enlarged centrally-located nailholes 5 near the ends, a screw 0 to fasten the base-plate in place, and headed nails (1 to connect the two plates and assist the screw in securing the base-plate, said nails loosely engaging the holes I) and closely engaging the holes a and the heads of the nails standing far enough away from the gripping-plate to permit rocking of the same. This rocking of the gripping-plate may be in either direction-i. e., on a fulcrum at either sidethe loose engagement of the nails with the holes providing for sufficient movement to permit the insertion of the ticket between the plates.

The base-plate is applied over the edge of the seat-back and is secured in place by the screw 0, which enters the framework e of the said back, the plate sinking into the upholstery f. The gripping-plate 1) takes position under the flexible binding strip g, which is secured to the back at opposite ends of the holder and as close to the same as practicable, so that said binding serves to resist movement of the gripping-plate away from the base-plate.

It will now be seen that the usual cardboard ticket can be conveniently inserted between the plates on one side or the other of the holder and will be held thereby, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The rounded flanges a, of the base-plate and the curled edges 1 of the outer plate provide entrance-places for the ticket, into which it is readily guided.

It will be seen that my invitation provides a holder adapted to-receive, the ticket at the place Where a conductor is accustomed to place it and wholly obviates the nuisance of having oues hat used as a ticket-holder;

All of the objects primarily stated are thoroughly fulfilled by the construction here shown and described. It is nevertheless to be understood that this construction is susceptible of variations and modifications Within the scope and spirit of the invention, and

hence I do not confine myself by the follo'wing claims to a single form of embodiment of Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is as follows:

1. A ticket-holder comprising a base-plate; a gripping plate arranged thereover; and

means confining said gripping-plate in place while permitting itto rock or move bodily with respect to the base-plate and admit the ticket between the two plates; the whole adapted to be inserted and affixed between the car-seat back and the binding thereof, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A ticket-holder comprising a base-plate; a gripping-plate arranged thereover; and centrallydocated means confining said grippingplate in place while permitting it to rock on either of its longitudinal edges bearing against the base-plate; the whole adapted to be inserted and aifixed between the car-seat back and the binding thereof, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. A ticket-holder comprising a base-plate with fastening means; a gripping-plate over said base-plate and having openings at the GEORGE F. SANBORN.

\Vitnesses:

M. W. MALoNnY, B. P. PORTER.

and headed fastenings extending 2o It is hereby certified that in LettersPatent No. 670,623, granted March 26, 1901, upon the application of George F.- Sanborn, of Meredith, New Hampshire, for an improvement in Ticket-Holders for Railway-Cars, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In line 87, page 1, the word invitation should read invention; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 26. day of April, A. 1)., 1901.

[SEAL.] F. L. CAMPBELL,

' Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

Conntersigned F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents. 

